Crypto spam increases 4000% in two years: LunarCrush

Crypto spam increases 4000% in two years: LunarCrush

Would be owner Elon Musk plans to shake the crypto spammers out of Twitter, disputing their claims that fake accounts only account for 5% of the total. Spam and bots have been the bane of anyone that uses the internet for years, but recently this digital scourge has ramped up activity in the crypto sector in a big way.Crypto intelligence provider LunarCrush has revealed spam in the cryptosphere has increased by an astonishing 3,894%. The firm has been collecting crypto-specific social data since 2019, and says not only is spam at an all-time high, it's also “the fastest growing metric on....


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